Pirates & Mermaids 2017

In this post: Talk Like a Pirate Day 2017, Mermaid Cupcakes, and a Mermaid photoshoot in Second Life’s Mer Waters.

Hello, Dear Ones! So yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day. It is our tradition to dress up as pirates and travel to Krispy Kreme for a free box of donuts. Sadly, this year our store didn’t celebrate the day. We got donuts anyways and had a nice breakfast.

Then we took a trip to the Toy store for some treasure and then to the park for a picnic. The wagon was our Pirate ship!

Afterwards, I hid chocolate gold coins and the boys found them.

We began and ended the day with pirate vids and movies. I’m posting the Youtube vids at the end. There’s also a link to last year’s celebrations and links to past Pirate parties.

When I think of pirates I automatically think of mermaids. Several years ago, I posted my BFF’s Mermaid Party.

As a little girl, I dreamt of being Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I still have fun pretending. As you know, I like to explore and take photographs in the Virtual World of Second Life. My avatar is known to don a tail and swim the seas. The closest I’ve gotten in real life is a Snuggie Tail Blanket.

So while I cuddled up in my blanket and watched H2O, I decided to make these delicious cupcakes. PS: More Second Life pics after this.

You can see the ingredients in the picture. I simply crushed the vanilla cookies to make “sand”. I used blue candy wafers and shell molds for the shells. The Rainbow Chip icing was just for my fancy. Of course, I used Little Mermaid liners.